Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is a socialist and secularist political party in India, one of the two major parties in the country alongside the Bharatiya Janata Party. The INC was founded on 28 December 1885 in British Raj to fight for the independence of India from the British Empire, and Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were both leaders of the Congress as well as the independence movement in the early 20th century. Since the independence of India, the INC has followed Gandhi's views on a socialist economy and Nehru's views on secularism, and it has competed with the BJP for control of the government for many years. In 2016, it had 45/545 Lok Sabha seats, 66/245 Rajya Sabha seats, 908/4,121 Vidhan Sabha seats, and 64/454 Vidhan Parishad seats.